Display-cabinet.



No. 764,280. PATENTED JULY 5, 1904.

' 0. E. DUERR & 0-. A. MORTLAND.

DISPLAY CABINET.

UNITED STATES Patented July 5, 190a.

PATENT O EIc OTTO E. DUERR AND OLETUS A. MORTLAND, OF lVlLKINSBURGr,PENNSYLVANIA.

DlSPLA Y-CAB|NET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 764,280, dated July 5,1904. Application filed December '7, 1903i Serial No. 184,044. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it "Inn/y concern:

Be it known that we, O'r'ro E. DUERR and Crimes A. MoR'rLAND, citizensof the United States of America, residing at Wilkinsburg, in the countyof Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Display-Cabinets, of which the following is aspecification, reference be ing had therein to the accompanyingdrawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in displayapparatus, and relates more particularly to an apparatus whereby aplurality of pieces of goods or other articles may be displayed.

The object of this invention is to provide an apparatus wherein aplurality of pieces of goods of any character may be successivelydisplayed and also to provide means whereby the removal of the goodsfrom the apparatus may be readily accomplished.

A further object of this invention is to provide an apparatus wherebythe bringing of the different articles into view may be readilyaccomplished by manual or automatic means.

With the above and other objects in View the invention consists in thenovel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts to behereinafter more fully described, and specifically pointed out in theclaim.

In describing the invention in detail refer ence is had to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this application, and whereinlike numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the severalviews, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of our improved displayapparatus. Fig. 2 is a crosssection thereof. Fig. 3 is a side elevationof the apparatus. Fig. 4 is a detail showing a certain style of goods inthe display-trays, and Fig. 5 is adetail view of a modified form ofdisplay-tray.

Referring to the drawings, the referencenumeral 1 indicates the casingor frame, which may beconstructed of wood or other suitable material,and suitably mounted in said frame are sheaves 2 and 3, the said sheaves2 being mounted in a permanent manner, while the sheave 3 is slidablymounted within a bracket same may be brought into the view.

l, secured within said frame. Passing around these sheaves 2 and 3 areendless carriers 5, such as belts or chains, and pivotally mounted onthese carriers is a plurality of displaytrays 6, which may besemicircular, as shown, or of a flat construction, as illustrated inFig. 5. The sheaves 2 being mounted in the framework, it will be readilyseen that by revolving said sheaves the trays carried by the endlesscarriers 5 will be moved, whereby the The movement of the said sheaves 2is accomplished through the medium of the sheave 7, which is mounted onan extension of the shaft 8, upon which said sheaves 2 are secured, andthe said sheave 7 may be revolved either through the medium of theendless belt 9, as shown in the drawings, or by a suitable drivingmeans, such as a motor or the like. (Not shown.)

In order that the goods contained in the tray may be readily observed,the casing 1 is provided on all sides with transparent panels, the sidepanels 10 and rear panels 11 of which are stationary, the portion 12 ofthe front panel also being stationary, and to provide for the removal ofgoods from the cabinet the portion 14 of the front panel is slidablymounted within the casing, and secured to said portion 14 on either sidethereof are cords 15, which at their upper ends are secured to drums 16,the said drums being suitably mounted within the cabinet, and a spring17 is suitably secured between the said drums and cabinet, whereby aforce is normally applied to said drums to counterbalance the weight ofthe portion 14, of the front panel, thus permitting the same to bereadily actuated. A handle 18 is provided on the part 1.4 for raisingthe same.

In Fig. i the trays are shown as semicircular, and this construction isespecially advantageous in the display of bolts of ribbon or cloth; butin the display of jewelry or other articles a tray such as shown in Fig.5 might be used, and the same may be con structed of plate-glass or thelike or of any other desirable material, and it will also be obviousthat the entire cabinet might be constructed of glass, as is now done inthe construction of show-Windows or the like.

While We have herein shown and described our invention in detail, itWill be obvious that bracket, a sheave at the top of the casing havingits shaft extended beyond one of the casing sides, a sheave on saidprojecting end of said shaft, an endless belt over said last-namedsheave, and an endless carrier oversaid firstnamed sheaves, said casinghaving a portion thereof slidably mounted to permit access to saidbracket.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures in the presence of twoWitnesses.

OTTO E. DUERR. CLETUS A. MORTLAND. Witnesses:

A. M. WILSON, E. E. POTTER.

